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Hi All,
This plant has manifested in my garden unbidden,..I have let it grow as I think it quite attractive,...does anyone out there know what it is? It puts me in mind of a cabbage...I am not sure why, because it is not. Although the Cabbage White butterflies seem to love it dearly as do the bees. Whilst taking photo I did notice that it has spotty mould...it seems a bit rife in this garden in late Summer. So guess the plant please!




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It certainly looks like cabbage to me.

6 Aug, 2011

 

I think it might be a rapeseed plant.

6 Aug, 2011

 

That's a cabbage family flower and the leaves look rather like broccoli or calabrese. The butterflies seem to think it is too! Odd if you didn't plant it - perhaps a self set from another year?

6 Aug, 2011

 

Does it have a really strong smell, quiet unpleasant? It looks like rapseed to me

6 Aug, 2011

 

Looks like oilseed rape to me as well. It's a brassica = cabbage family, so it's not surprising that the cabbage whites like it.

6 Aug, 2011

 

Rape - that's it - never thought of that as not much is grown round here.

6 Aug, 2011

 

I would suggest removing, not something you want growing in your garden

6 Aug, 2011

 

Oil Seed Rape. The seed probably came from birds feed.

6 Aug, 2011

 

Hi All,
thanks for your input.....it must be Oil Seed Rape, have never seen it growing on it's own outside of a huge field....and I am sure that Bulbaholic is correct also, as this is where I threw feed for the birds all through last winter.
It is an acheivement in some ways as I never grow anything from seed when I try....but seem to have succeeded by accident.
So thanks again and good-night from riot torn London Town.

8 Aug, 2011

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